There Goes The Sun

The sun in the news -
The lack of activity may not lead to another ice age:

The sun’s surface has been fairly blank for the last couple of years, and that has some worried that it may be entering another Maunder minimum, the sun’s 50-year abstinence from sunspots, which some scientists have linked to the Little Ice Age of the 17th century.

Could a new sunspot drought plunge us into another decades-long cold spell?

It’s not very likely, says David Hathaway a solar physicist at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.

but it may lead to famine?

…worrisome indicators suggest dramatic drops in the bee population of the US are likely to impact crop production. This is not a small agricultural sector that is being impacted either. In the US bees pollinate more than $14 billion worth of seeds and crops each year.

And one reason (of several) may be the sunspot drought:

The other cause odd though it may seem, relates to so-called “sunspots” – the effect of solar activity.

… Where the sunspot theory does hold up is that bees appear to be very sensitive to energy fluctuations.

If the mainstream media gets hold of this, doubtless it’ll be hyped beyond all recognition as the crisis du jour, and the next thing you know politicians will try to tax and regulate us…

My grandmother used to say, a change is as good as a rest, and I have to admit, a break from the horrors of carbon dioxide would be refreshing.